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Tom Sizemore, the “Saving Private Ryan” actor, is hospitalized in intensive care after struggling a brain aneurysm, his spokesperson advised CNN on Sunday morning.
Sizemore is in critical condition and is in a “wait and see situation,” stated the spokesperson, Charles Lago.
“His family is aware and waiting for updates.” Lago stated. “There is no further update at this time.”
Sizemore, a 61-year-old from Detroit, appeared in a lot of hit crime and conflict motion pictures in the 90s and 2000s, together with in the movies “Heat,” “Natural Born Killers,” “Pearl Harbor” and “Black Hawk Down.”
Often portraying powerful guys, he’s maybe finest recognized for taking part in Sgt. Mike Horvath in the World War II film “Saving Private Ryan.”
As the loyal sergeant alongside star Tom Hanks, Sizemore delivers the titular line towards the top of the film: “Some day we might look back on this and decide that saving Private Ryan was the one decent thing we were able to pull out of this godawful s***ty mess.”
In addition, he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 2000 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for his position in “Witness Protection.” More lately, he appeared in episodes of the TV sequence “Twin Peaks” and “Cobra Kai.”
Sizemore has lengthy struggled with drug dependancy and had a litany of authorized points throughout his profession.
He was convicted in 2003 on domestic violence costs stemming from a relationship together with his former fiancee Heidi Fleiss. He advised CNN’s Larry King in a 2010 interview he had been hooked on cocaine, heroin and meth, and he participated in the 2010 season of the fact present “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.”